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3359 with WiFi Kit
Added by Brian Compter about 12 years ago
I'm working with a 3359 dev kit and just got in a WiFi expansion kit to go with it.
I've followed the instructions here:
http://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/am335x-devkit/wiki/Wifi_Module_configuration
and here:
http://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/arm9-platforms/wiki/USB_WiFi_Configuration
But when I plug in the WiFi card, I don't see a wlan0 in ifconfig.
Running wpa_cli gives the error "Could not connect to wpa_supplicant - re-trying" but I do not see either of these two files in my file system:
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.epitest.hostap.WPASupplicant.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.service
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
BC
Replies (6)
RE: 3359 with WiFi Kit - Added by Tim Iskander about 12 years ago
Brian
My best guess would be that you need to update the kernel and modules. (git://support.criticallink.com/home/git/linux-mityarm-335x.git).
WiFi support is not in the kernel that was delivered on the SD card with the base dev kits.
cheers
/Tim
RE: 3359 with WiFi Kit - Added by Brian Compter about 12 years ago
I can't seem to pull the git repository.
The command,
git clone git://support.criticallink.com/home/git/linux-mityarm-335x.git
yields,
Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/ti-sdk-am335x-evm-05.03.02.00/linux-devkit/linux-mityarm-335x/.git/
support.criticallink.com[0: 72.90.70.107]: errno=Connection timed out
fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
For the record I have a good internet connection and can pull up google and the critical link website (including this forum) without trouble.
Any ideas?
Regards,
Brian
RE: 3359 with WiFi Kit - Added by Tim Iskander about 12 years ago
Brian
Are you behind a firewall that may be blocking git access?
You can download a snaphot of the repository using our gitweb server
http://support.criticallink.com/gitweb/?p=linux-mityarm-335x.git;a=summary
| gitweb__snapshot.png (100 KB) gitweb__snapshot.png | repository snaphot from gitweb page |
RE: 3359 with WiFi Kit - Added by Brian Compter about 12 years ago
Yep that seemed to do the trick.
I pulled the latest snapshot and was able to compile. Btw, I noted a small type on your wiki:
http://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/armc8-platforms/wiki/Linux_Kernel
[linux-devkit]:~/linux-mityarm-335x> make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-arago-linux-gnueabi- mityarm335x_devkit_defconfig
should be
[linux-devkit]:~/linux-mityarm-335x> make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-arago-linux-gnueabi- mityarm-335x-devkit_defconfig
Newly compiled uImage loaded and still no wlan0 in ifconfig. Is there some adjustment I need to make in "mityarm-335x-devkit_defconfig" to get it to work?
Thanks,
Brian
RE: 3359 with WiFi Kit - Added by Tim Iskander about 12 years ago
Brian
Did you make the modules also?
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=../rootfs ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-arago-linux-gnueabi- modules
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=../rootfs ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-arago-linux-gnueabi- modules_install
This will build the required modules and then install them under ../rootfs
i.e. if you are building the kernel in /home/mitydsp/build/linux-mityarm-335x-a9b5a61
the modules will be in /home/mitydsp/build/rootfs/lib/...
You then want to copy the lib directory onto your target FS under /lib
cheers
/Tim
RE: 3359 with WiFi Kit - Added by Brian Compter about 12 years ago
That did the trick.
Thank you very much Tim for your help.
Brian
